The reporter who conducted that interview, ABC Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross, told WMAL’s Morning Majority program that Marianne Gingrich claims her ex-husband wanted an ‘open marriage.’ “He came to her and said, ‘I want to stay married to you and still have an affair with Callista, his current wife,” said Ross. “According to Marianne, he said ‘You need to share me,’ and she said ‘I don’t want to share,’ and the marriage ended,” he added.

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That’s right — not only was Newt schtupping a staffer while sanctimoniously railing (and leading the impeachment charges) against President Bill Clinton for similar conduct, but once he could no longer conceal the affair, the Speaker had the temerity to demand that his wife “share” him with his mistress.

Unbelievable. And this is the man who’s trying to tell me I can’t have even one marriage? That HIS marriage has “sanctity” but MINE does not?!?

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GeneJanuary 19, 2012 at 11:52 am -

Damn….I was hoping he would knock the handsome heretic out of the top spot in SC. Obama could easily beat Newt…this confirmation of his vileness and typical republicaness will sink him in SC, and we will get an UBER wealthy anti gay heretic with all the staggering wealth of the cult he belongs to behind him flooding us with commercials.

Great.

Ben in OaklandJanuary 19, 2012 at 11:58 am -

Let us not forget that mrs. G #2 hardly has anything remotely resembling a moral leg to stand on. She was screeeewwwwwwwwing the Gingster while he was married to mrs. g #1

EddyJanuary 19, 2012 at 12:04 pm -

Newt is physically very unatractive, he’s a toad.. yet he married these reasonbly attractive women, and fathered children… YUCK, VOMIT!! I just don’t get it..

DanielJanuary 19, 2012 at 12:11 pm -

Eddy, he’s rich, the women are not marrying him because they find him physically attractive.

WyocowboyJanuary 19, 2012 at 12:14 pm -

Does Callista look real…that is such a fake smile and expression on her face. Was it photoshoped?

Note: I am not commenting about the “morality” of the way any two consenting adults structure their marriages, merely pointing out the festering hypocrisy of a man like Gingrich kissing up to the “values” of the American Taliban in public while kissing up to women outside of his marriage in private. Not to mention the fact that he apparently can’t grasp the dissonance between his belief that he should have whatever kind of marriages he wants while other people (LGBTs) shouldn’t be able to marry at all…

@NotSoDeepSouth: See my comment (#6) immediately above yours . I’m not disagreeing with you; however, a.) this kind of conversation should have happened before marriage, and b.) if the need for this conversation arose after the two were already married (as sometimes happens), it really should have been framed in terms of a request rather than a demand. Only someone as arrogant and messianic as Gingrich would think it appropriate to DEMAND such an arrangement. Talk about disrespect for one’s spouse…

WilliamJanuary 19, 2012 at 1:18 pm -

Strange. One of the arguments that I’ve read against gay marriage is that many gays have open relationships and that if we’re allowed to marry, then straights will start imitating us. This gentleman obviously couldn’t wait for that contingency to be fulfilled: he decided to jump the gun. A unique exception?

Ben In OaklandJanuary 19, 2012 at 1:49 pm -

The best studies show that adultery is common to about 25%-33% of the hetero married population.

We might be for ced to imitate them.

MichaelJanuary 19, 2012 at 4:07 pm -

Radical anti-gay activist Gingrich is immoral and not fit to lead our nation! This is the depth of depravity to which conservatism has sunk and it threatens to defile our nation and lead us all to hell.

EmmaJanuary 19, 2012 at 8:38 pm -

And Gingrich thinks our marriages are immoral? I think that, citing Newtie as an idea of what straight marriage leads to, we should abolish straight marriage.

DanielJanuary 20, 2012 at 12:46 pm -

One thing I find weird is that Newt has his daughters defending him. As though his daughters would have any knowlege of Newt’s asking his wife for an open marriage (although I think that’s a bit of misstatement–he only wanted an open marriage for himself). It reminds of when the children of closeted gays say that they know their parent wasn’t gay–as though they would know.

Paul DouglasJanuary 20, 2012 at 8:13 pm -

I think the daughters were by the first wife. The one he cheated on when she had cancer.
I wonder what Dr Dobson has to say?

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